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WHO WHO WHO WHO

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WHO WHO.

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This is to be a movie about fly
one of my very favorite subjects.

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Fact is

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that I'd rather talk about especially
during this fiftieth anniversary year of

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powered flight. Course I like to
talk about radio and television.

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They've been mighty good to this country
boy. This is the way I make my living.

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Makes the living worthwhile as they get
out there in the wild blue yonder.

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Good airplane for the whole universe
not just because it's a thrill.

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Although it certainly is that but
because I like to think that aviation.

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As far as it has advanced. That
certainly has come a long way.

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Is still very young.

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We've come a long way since the days

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when my good friend the ace of aces Captain
Eddie Rickenbacker used to fly around

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and friends in those facts the dean
of the beach just think he's been.

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Flying for nearly forty years. Why it's
only fifty years since the Wright brothers.

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You know they call me one of
the old timers in aviation.

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But I didn't begin to fly in earnest.
I'm still nineteen twenty nine.

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Gosh that's almost twenty five years ago

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and you know I've done more flying in the
last three years than I did the first

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twenty two. Let me show you.

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I have been commissioned
in the Naval reserves.

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Since one nine hundred thirty nine

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but because of an old injury to
my leg the Bureau of medicine

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and surgery wouldn't clear me for military
airplanes flying until nineteen fifty.

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So I was in one thousand nine
hundred eighty in September

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that I got my name the wings at Pensacola
the happiest day of my life since

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that I have qualified as
a carrier pilot as a jet

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pilot as a helicopter pilot

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and here is the coveted Navy green to get
the highest instrument rating given to

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Navy pilots of course I'm very
proud of all of these military

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certificates. But this is one thing here
that makes me very very very happy.

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This is the certificate

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that Captain Eddie Rickenbacker gave me
recently making me an honorary captain in

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Eastern Airlines.

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As I was saying planes have come a
long way in the last fifty years.

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Is one very much like the one

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that the Wright brothers used to
make forty to fifty miles an hour

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and still want to throw these around
so. It's a funny looking at things.

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But most of the basic principles we use
today were developed in this plane didn't

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fly

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and it didn't fly far by golly it.

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Looks kind of like an overgrown box kite.

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Well you can take it from
me it feels like one two

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and you know.

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You've heard the expression
fly under the seedier pants.

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Alyssa's where it came from.

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The bucket seat right here the Wright
Brothers had no instruments of any kind

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simple little gauge down here tells you
got some oil pressure packed there

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and this stick this column

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and this wheel is exactly the same as
we have in the big airliners up today

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when I push the stick. Knows

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that flip it comes down to pushes the tail
up in the nose down vice versa this way

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I want to drop the right wing
do it this way left this way.

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And here are the rudder bars

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that work the writers in the tail is see
the principles were the same then as they

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are today. No difference here is
a model of a span the airplane

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that Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
flew in World War One only ten

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or twelve years after the
Wright Brothers first flight.

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It's a shame that it had to be used
as a weapon of destruction so soon

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but the war brought that on.

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This is Captain Rickenbacker in the plane
made famous in World War One these old

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films show the dashing young skipper of
the ninety four Squadron leading his boys

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into a dogfight to head in the
ring insignia was always present

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when the fighting was thick

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and the wild blue yonder was
really wild in those days

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when there was just so much wood canvas
between you and the enemy between you.

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When the ground down in flames was the
rule rather than the exception they had no

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protection they had no parachute.

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Yes they paid a high price

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but it was through Captain Reagan
backers explodes in World War One

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that the terrific fighting power in the
airplanes was made known to man this little

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sped carried a very powerful
engine for those days

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and often flew up to one hundred thirty
five miles an hour straight down there

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aren't many of them left

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but you becomes one of
those old timers now

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and look who's flying it.

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It's Captain easy then what I know
Captain Rickenbacker wait a minute.

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I want to get in this scene myself
as a feel a bit at the console as it

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is O.B. The again.

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Well frankly that brings back a lot of
memories are there some good some not.

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That does but I have a way
out the door regardless.

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And Monday morning is the that around
up there twenty thousand feet.

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The Sun about back wedding

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but they don't have a back as the
come around twenty thousand feet in

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that open cockpit right now a days we got
heated pressurized cabin didn't get cold

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the whole how your back than
the cup down the thoughts you

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know it gets the cold up there.

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Yes I think it's a wonderful membership
by the fact that the made up of wire

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and black phone together with all
of these wonderful combination

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gadgets back the matter is
the only metal in the engine

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and the machine got questioning
thirty years till you're

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on the other hand and they go like a favorite
of their for confirmation. No matter.

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One and that the other aluminum brand
proper and back they're very high number.

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I don't know the sign of another
drug just take a look at

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that Super Constellation called hundred

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and fourteen feet long with
a wingspan of a hundred

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and twenty three feet more of the latest
compound in engines of thirty two hundred

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fifty horsepower each Do you
realize how much power that is.

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Why Each engine has more
power than a locomotive this

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plane can fly up to around
four hundred miles an hour

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and we are going to take a ride
in and let's hear what kept it.

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He is saying either one of those
wheels are always the most aggressive

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but by the way or comes your crew.

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I think if I can ride and are
you OK. Right. You're coming.

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Either way you're out of it. You're a
crack just one hour from now I'm ready.

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Out wrong. As you front of the going to
do the flying I might as well go right.

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I have a contract that when I go.

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Now we're going to take you on a regularly
scheduled flight from New York to Miami.

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Only this time you're coming
up in the cockpit with us

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and we're going to show you what goes on
behind the scenes really you always think

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OK they're the on board.

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Now folks I want you to meet Michael captain
for the days as a skeptic Meryl over

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twenty five years with Eastern Airlines
for the grandest guys of the best pilots

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Beverly

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and I'm sure you know all of his exploits
as well as I do name one he was the first

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pilots to fly a commercial flight
across the Atlantic in return.

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What do you say Captain. I think
Captain let's check out good guy going

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and then going to run. I said we'll do it.

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That beautiful high look
at this front back.

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And.

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Good things in really big let's let down
the twenty two thousand sounds like a good

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allocute in the art of I'm
glad I got the bright flash.

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In this room to get whether it was every
hour on the hour from weather stations

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scattered all over the United
States and Canada. I think so.

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The dispatcher's office is the Central
Intelligence for all aircraft.

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They know where every plane is
every minute. On this big board.

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The clerk knows the position of each
plane on route as reported by radio

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and the time do with the next checkpoint.

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We fill out our flight plan with the
dispatcher giving our exact route a flight the

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elephant to the amount of fuel

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and so a copy of this will be filed with
the government here ways traffic control

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out of that not tell you. The
dispatcher gives us official clearance

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and on our way.

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Everything OK you ship is ready sir.

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Ladies Masters captain going to sway
one hundred thousand other. Thanks.

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That's what I'd like to see.

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Now for you folks who've never been
up on a flight that before this is a.

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The captain

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and the pilot have the flying controllers
at their fingertips at all times.

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Well over here the engineer is
very busy with the engineers trip.

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These are either.

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It's like exhilarate is on a car one
for each engine so little three for.

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This is the control column

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and will let you fly the airplane
to the right to left down.

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And here are your other pedals down below.

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The air speed indicator shows just how
fast we are going through the air the

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altimeter tells us how high we are this
vertical speed indicator tells us our rate

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of climb

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or descend the automatic direction finding
just what its name would imply points

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to where we want to go when
we tune in a radio station.

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This is the flux compass

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and this one is the all reliable
magnetic compass just like Columbus had

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when he came over here.

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This is the Omni range bearing indicator.

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This is the localizer

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and glide path indicator which
we saw a little bit more later.

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This is the artificial horizon.

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It shows the attitude of our plane with
reference to the real horizon the course

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you know that we have radio
contact at all times.

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Ship the ship hit the
ground to the transmitters

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and receivers the display has already
been very thoroughly checked by the

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maintenance department and
during the last hour.

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It was checked by our own flight engineer.

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That's not enough pilots the captain have
one two three lists of checks to make

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before we start down the runway to take
a look a dick will do before starting

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engines check out right. Act
again mask. Freely available.

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Frank select and so on through
thirty nine separate.

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Yes now you passengers wonder why we should
wait sometimes at the end of the runway.

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It is because the captain and the copilot

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and the crew are making these
additional last minute checks.

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So I guess we're really doing about
six hours which over to him to come

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and talk to the gentleman outside there by
the nose. Get ready to start the engine.

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Around the cockpit to start
ready to start start turning

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three.

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Contact three.

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To start for turning four.

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As soon as the second engine starts the
ground crew checks with the cockpit

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hydraulic pressure up.

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Now the safety pins can be removed from the
free landing otherwise it could not be

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retracted when the plane is in
the same things as follows.

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For a change in one

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of the engines

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or all the cockpit safe goes through
another checklist saying OK let's do this

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before taxi

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and like hey I've got a fan.

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After

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that he checks by radio with the airport
ground control of our ground control

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and I live on correcting instruction
is to secure one for only

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thirteen right one for a Right right.

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Get the runway on the. Right right right.

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It's ready to attack.

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Exactly.

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Over the warm up block
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Before takeoff.

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Eleven items

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and this time the last check before
the plane leaves the ground.

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This is in front of the Ready for takeoff

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clearance ready for five

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zero one where for takeoff.

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Is a super Johnny is she was
the fly right for this.

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Except the take.

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That's going to.

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Flaps are extensions of the wing you're
used to get more live during the slower

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speeds. Takeoffs

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and landings they withdraw
your flight for greater speed.

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And.

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We finish our plane check. It's
time for just a feel. I don't know.

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You. OK thank you get
down on the deck you by

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and by the car see it
differently. Yes sir.

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I thought you could
wrap your tongue around

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that one twice filling up as by this

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is the life goes at

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Northtown a silver fountain.

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That's one of Eastern Airlines wonderful
twin engine plane the new type

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that has superceded the
beloved old D.C. Three.

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It's the most advanced twin engine commercial
plane in the air today she carries

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forty people at a cruising speed of
around three hundred miles an hour.

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One of the most comfortable airplanes you
could ever write Eastern uses them to

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pick up passengers from intermediate
points to connect with these big super

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economies the wonderful
airplane. That silver Falcon.

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Smells like the girls are getting
ready to serve dinner back there.

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When a waterside receiving
one gets ranking.

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Like this is

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our people often ask me I can figure
out how you do this in good weather

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and overlaying But how do you navigate
when you're up over the clouds

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and over the ocean. Well
honestly it's so simple.

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I hate to tell you where for directions.

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We have the compass the
automatic direction find

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and the Omni range receiver.

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Let me show you how that works take
take over for a minute. William.

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Look let me show you how it works.